USA

Dear Sir,

I have read your letter of December 20, 1920 with great pleasure. I should like to thank you for offering the RSFSR your knowledge and experience in the field of communications.

Not wishing to subject you at once to the hardships of a complex journey from America to Moscow, and likewise wishing to make use of you as a highly necessary expert for the RSFSR, I would ask you to contact Comrade Martens. I shall pass on to him all information about you before his departure for America, which will take place in the near future.

I would advise you to conduct preliminary negotiations with Comrade Martens and, in the event of an agreement acceptable to both sides, you will be able to proceed to Moscow to complete matters 742.

Please accept my best wishes

Yours

from the typewritten copy

Translated from the English

PROPOSALS FOR THE DRAFT

RESOLUTION OF THE PLENUM OF THE CC RCP(b)

ON POINT 13 OF THE PARTY PROGRAM

Written March 27, 1921

Sent April 9, 1921

Published for the first time